Free peer training to help drive local improvement – health and wellbeing systems

The Local
Government Association isholding a peer training event on 27th October
2017 in London for elected member peers such as health and wellbeing board chairs and public health & adult
social care portfolio holders interested in being part of a peer challenge team
helping system leaders with locally driven improvement.

A team of peers are invited by a system to spend up to 3 days examining the opportunities and challenges that the system is
facing. They talk to a range of people
and highlight things that could be improved.
Peers champion change and recognise the achievements of places they are
invited into, spending 3
days on-site undertaking interviews, focus groups and visits. Before they leave
the peer team delivers a constructive but challenging feedback session to local
leaders and stakeholders.

Those who have been peers suggest the benefits
are wide, varied and sometimes personal. These include, a renewed focus for
themselves and their own organisation and/or system which is prompted by what
they’ve seen and heard and seeing first hand good practice that they can ‘take
back to the ranch’

The system wide
care & health peer challenge is
funded by the Department of Health through the LGA’s Care & Health
Improvement Programme.